01692nam a22001457a 4500 520450 520450 220915b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Rhodes, Alec P. 34075 Student debt and geographic disadvantage: Disparities by rural, suburban, and urban background Rural Sociology 87(1), Mar, 2021: p.231-263 American youth from rural backgrounds have made great strides to overcome challenges in college enrollment and completion since the 2000s. Yet little is known about how rural youth are financing these attainment increases—a pressing question in light of high college costs, rising student debt, and spatial inequality in the resources that students have to pay for college. This paper examines disparities in young adults' student debt by geographic background using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort. Regression analyses reveal that college-goers from rural backgrounds accumulate more debt than those from suburban and urban backgrounds, adjusting for differences in sociodemographic characteristics. Rural college-goers' higher debt can be partially attributed to differences in socioeconomic backgrounds and rates of inter-county migration during college, and there is evidence that the additive influences of geographic background and gender contribute to particularly high debt among rural women. The findings suggest that longstanding spatial inequalities contribute to disparities in student debt and raise questions about the experiences of rural youth and communities in a debt-based society. – Reproduced Rural Sociology RURAL DEVELOPMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 394511 IIPA IIPA 2022-09-15 87(1), Mar, 2021: p.231-263 AR127035 2022-09-15 AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 394512 IIPA IIPA 2022-09-15 87(1), Mar, 2021: p.231-263 AR127036 2022-09-15 AR